I attended a landlords forum meeting last night co-hosted by a brilliant company called Housing Action. They are a housing charity offering an extraordinary service for landlords in the East Anglia area.
Housing Action are a registered charity who have been around since 1989. They aim to re-house and support individuals and families in need, and [...]
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Housing charity Housing Action provides voidless letting solution
Foxtons withdraws appeal
Two property web-sites have been reporting that Foxtons have withdrawn their appeal to the Court of Appeal against the High Court decision against them last year. You will find a summary (as at October 2009) of my previous posts on the OFT v. Foxtons case here.
The two articles that I have seen are on the PainSmith Blog and [...]
Tenancy Deposits – Lettings Today get answers from the CLG
There is a very interesting post over on the Estate Agent Today news web-site.
It seems that back in November 2009 they asked a number of questions of the Communities and Local Government (CLG) department (whose remit covers the tenancy deposit scheme) about the workings of the scheme. After two reminders and three months later, the [...]
HMO planning law changes causes consternation among landlords
HMO landlords be warned – the government has announced that the law is to be changed from 6 April, introducing a new planning category for HMOs (the definition to be based on that set out in the Housing Act 2004):
we have decided to amend the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) order 1987 as amended [...]
Fast Trak to the rescue for social housing tenants
An interesting article in the January / February issue of Residential Property Investor looks at Fast Trak, a new company tackling the problems of too many social housing tenants, not enough social housing to put them in, and not enough private landlords willing to take a chance on them.
There are a myriad reasons why private [...]
TDS increases prices for agents using arbitration scheme
Last year I reported that the Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) run by the Dispute Service had announced that they were going to increase their fees. They have now announced what these are. Or rather they haven’t, because the fees information page tells us that all TDS members fees are going to be calculated individually now, [...]
The Landlord Law Blog from Tessa Shepperson
Foxtons case concluded – now is the time for agents to review their agency agreements
I have just learned that a final order has been made in the case of the Office of Fair Trading v. Foxtons, which I have written about in the past (see here).
Foxtons have now made ‘significant changes’ to its standard terms and conditions which have satisfied the OFT
‘including making the liability to pay renewal commission [...]
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